Pliny the Younger (c. 61/62-113), like his uncle Pliny the Elder (c. 23-79), was a man of well-rounded scholarly interests, including natural history. The...
Yes, according to medieval chronicles, Emperor Justinian II of Constantinople (r. 685-695, 705-711) sentenced the wife of a rebel to marry her household cook....
Pope Innocent VIII (r. 1484-1492) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church when Jacob (or James) Sprenger and Heinrich (or Henry) Kramer began formulating...
Sidonius Apollinaris was no ordinary clergyman. Born around the year 430, the future saint was descended from a family of Gallo-Roman nobility. Like the...
This drawing, by the French artist Jacques Blanchard (c. 1600-1638), was inspired by ancient Greek mythology. Blanchard re-creates a scene from the early life...
Although this curious late-15th-century manuscript painting is reminiscent of the images in witchcraft treatises and demonology books, it actually is an artwork that tells...
